#tis

I've only been interested in the artistic side of life. ↗

— Elton John

#been #i #interested #life #only

If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything. Songs will outlast the artist and they will go on for ever if they are good. ↗

— Elton John

#because #emotion #ever #everything #go

Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose not to, will be performing well into the next many decades because they are great artists. ↗

— Lara St. John

#art #artists #because #choose #decades

I'm lucky the arthritis happened at the time that it did because of the record. ↗

— Daniel Johns

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Reactive arthritis is something I've been dealing with for nearly a year. ↗

— Daniel Johns

#been #dealing #i #nearly #reactive

I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#art #artists #aware #birds #carolina

In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#artists #child #i #know #meant

Sometime during the mid-50s I said, 'I am an artist.' Before that, for many years, I had said, 'I'm going to be an artist.' Then I went through a change of mind and a change of heart. What made 'going to be an artist' into 'being an artist', was, in part, a spiritual change. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#artist #before #being #change #during

The only logical thing I can think of is that I knew there were such things as artists, and I knew there were none where I lived. So I knew that to be an artist you had to be somewhere else. And I very much wanted to be somewhere else. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#artists #else #had #i #i can

This image of wanting to be an artist - that I would in some way become an artist -was very strong. I knew for a long, long time that that's what I would be. But nothing I ever did seemed to bring me any nearer to the condition of being an artist. And I didn't know how to do it. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#artist #become #being #bring #condition